Re: KTF file in Oracle - binary?

From Al Macintyre 

Another thing you need to pursue is what the standards are for your platform 
& what deviations, if any, are in use by any or all software vendors on the 
platform.

Back in the days when I was on *DOS where the * did not mean Microsoft ... 
before Microsoft even existed as a corporation, possibly also before Apple, 
the ASCII standard was not as well accepted as it is today.  The IEEE had 
this standard for communications, and various computer vendors were using 
pieces of the IEEE standard & then adding their own stuff, so that any given 
hexadecimal representation might mean something totally different on 
different computer systems.

As the computer industry matured & adopted the ASCII standard, many vendors 
aquisition merger etc. took software products designed in an age that is no 
longer reflective of what we have today, but kept a lot of idiot ideas 
without any sunshine law to reviisit whether any decisions made sense into 
the future, the Y2K non-compliance being one of those ideas that made sense 
when first promulgated but ceased to have merit decades before the deadline.

You need to figure out the precise systems of representation being used on 
HP/Oracle & compare them with official ASCII EBCDIC etc. to determine what 
protocol is being emulated & if it has a one to one correspondence or if 
there are some exceptions to some standard.

Al
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